Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Felten

It is not legitimate to undermine the user's desire to secure their own computer. I don't think they should be hiding files and programs and registry entries from the system administrator, ever.

It is my hope and desire that they hold to the Tuesday deadline, and I am hoping that they take it as a sign that they must finish their work, ... Late Edition.

Larry Bird

Like me, he plays the game to win, ... Because of his intensity and desire to win, Ronnie's a guy I would pay money to watch play.

I want to thank Frank McCourt for the opportunity to speak with him regarding his opening. I enjoyed speaking to him. However, I have indicated to Texas owner Tom Hicks my desire to remain with the Rangers. Therefore, I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the general manager's job with the Dodgers.

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

Placing fourth as a freshman and fourth as a sophomore and now second as a junior, you're climbing. Hopefully he's gotten a little taste of this and has a desire to get back.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

I am a sacrifice to the Guru, who has given me the Lord s Name, and fulfilled the desires of my mind.

He's gifted with a lot of hand-eye coordination and he has tremendous foot speed. Plus he's got a real desire to do well.

There aren't 10 players better than Alexis. She has the deep-down desire to turn pro and, without a doubt, she has the potential to make money.

Andre Agassi

I threw myself in with eagerness and desire, but it was just too much, too soon.

I think that people look for things that are convenient. There's a desire to connect.

There are so many reasons to love Vegas. Anything that your heart desires is there. Starting June 16, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but starts in Stockton.

Dan Gilroy

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.

Know what you want. Become your real self.

Alice Sebold

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

Alice Munro

Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.

Anne Hutchinson

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

Alber Elbaz

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

Albert Camus

...he was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way...

Annie Lennox

Desire, despair, desire. So many monsters.

Anna Wickham

I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.

D. H. Lawrence

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

Alexander McCall Smith

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

E. Stanley Jones

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

E. M. Forster

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Don Johnson

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Don Henley

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I get weary of the European habit of taking our money, resenting any slight hint as to what they should do, and then assuming, in addition, full right to criticize us as bitterly as they may desire.

Dalai Lama

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.